[aleph_minus_one]

AI boyfriends/girlfriends are a serious thing (and when GPT-5 was released, people were complaining that this AI is much worse suited for this purpose). If you combine it with realistic human-size puppets, this might get big.

[netsharc]

But how do people ignore that it's a machine simulating having feelings for you? Is it like the steak in The Matrix?

I played with Sony's Aibo robot dog once, if you hold out your hand in front of it, it can pretend to eat off your hand. After a few tries, it did so, and I thought "How cute!". Then I realized it was just image recognition and logic that instructed some actuators to do certain things..

Perhaps VR goggles and AI that analyses the video and activates the actuators and pumps in sync with whatever is happening in the video would also work.. or oh, geez, why not realtime generated videos?

[hansmayer]

Visit /r/chatgpt and see for yourself how quickly the masses got attached to the "emotional" ChatGPT 4o...

[hansmayer]

Porn is always a safe bet, and I'd give them thumbs up if the crap finally disappears from the public space and we can go back to doing the actually innovative stuff.

[sph]

The problem with porn is post-nut clarity. No one will choose to pay AI companies $x/month if users regret their purchase after releasing their pent-up energy.

[aleph_minus_one]

> The problem with porn is post-nut clarity. No one will choose to pay AI companies $x/month if users regret their purchase after releasing their pent-up energy[.]

In a brothel (a market that AI-powered sex dolls might partly disrupt), customers don't get their money back if they regret their "purchase" after releasing their pent-up energy.

[sph]

> In a brothel (a market that AI-powered sex dolls might partly disrupt)

Would it disrupt the brothel? I'm inexperienced in the field, but I'm pretty sure in a proper establishment I'd rather go with a real human rather than an AI-powered sex doll, no matter the cost.

But what do I know, human sexuality is very diverse.

[red-iron-pine]

in a brothel they actually mate with human beings -- completing the actual act, even if mechanical and compensated.

chatbots will never do that. it's like eating an image of bread vs. eating stale bread -- yeah it's not the good, ideal fresh bread, but it's actual bread.

[noduerme]

Definitely. AI sex puppets would kill online porn faster than Betamax killed the XXX movie theater.

[hansmayer]

So actually I did not care about online porn. Was referring to actually the whole non-innovation of generative AI finally finding its niche in the very profitable sex-market and disappearing from other domains.

[noduerme]

Ah, yes I understand. But wouldn't it be great if AI and online porn disappeared from the public domain together?

[hansmayer]

I am not sure - online porn satisfies a market demand, and it's not like it is absolutely everywhere - you have to deliberately search for it. The so-called AI is omnipresent, but its not clear what actual problem it is solving, unless we count helping the Joe Bullshit in performing his bullshit job.